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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325712
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324997
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325694
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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325160
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When the Quality of a Nation Triggers Emigration
van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733967
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
de Graaff, Thomas; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2004
international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325440
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The Effect of Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288422
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325829
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326044
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819506